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Valentine's day

How an economist says "I love you"

MICROECONOMICS is full of tools that help explain human behaviour through competition, incentives and signals. But the discipline can seem far removed from real-world situations given the nature of the terms used. On this Valentine's day, Elisabeth Fosslien, an analyst and visual designer has created this brilliant visualisation of love through the eyes of the dismal science. Click here for 13 more.

interesting:) one day after the macroeconomics class in 1992, I drew the MPL curve for a classmate on the blackboard. I enjoyed the return on that innovation for a few good months after that:) [ MPL or marginal propensity to like measures the increasing rate of liking over time for someone]...I am sure, Liz Fosslien would have her time too

Truly it would have been great to have more suppliers of love at better prices, but this supplier is a natural monopolist and restricts free entry, bad.... We are Pro-Competition, rather Open Economy Perfect Competition ;-)